Uphill? Both ways? In six feet of snow? To listen to my Dad tell it, the kid had it easy...
You need to pay attention to your father. One mile is really no big deal. We did, indeed, walk to and from school - 2 1/2 miles each way and yes, there were some pretty steep hills going to school.
We never did have 6 feet of snow but often had as much as one to three feet. When that happened we at least had a horse to ride. My daddy would wrap me in a blanket, put me in the saddle, tie me on, whap the horse on the rear and off we would go. Horse spent the day with everyone else’s in the lean to by the school and the teacher would help you get down and unwrapped. Then at the end of the day the process would be repeated.
The worst part of the winter was having to use the outdoor bathroom.
My kids rode their bicycles to grade school but when I was young a bicycle was a true luxury and no one I knew had one.
This kid in Hawaii had it way too easy, regardless of his age, unless he was in pre-K. Judge needs to butt out and father needed to “man up” when he appeared in front of the judge.
Uphill? Both ways? In six feet of snow
And I used to carry my little sister on my shoulders also. With no shoes. Kids today are wuss.
Well I didn’t have it quite that bad BUT
When I was in Cub Scouts the Den Mother’s home was about a mile and a half South of the school and my home was about a mile and a half North of the school.
Well the short of it is that on meeting nights I would walk that 1 ½ miles to the meeting through whatever weather (I do remember slogging through snow that was more than knee deep) in an area without sidewalks.
So after a one hour meeting I would have at least a one hour walk home in the dark (during the majority of the school year).
It wasn’t punishment and no one ever seemed to think it was unusually harsh for me to walk that distance at my young age of six. I don’t recall ever getting a ride from another boy’s parent.
The judge is an idiot that should mind her own business.